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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Meet +1: Google's Answer To The Facebook Like Button — Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. It launches today as part of Google's search engine, allowing you to +1 search results and ads that you like.
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David Byttow / Social Web Blog:
Introducing the +1 Button — We all know what it's like to get a bit of help when you're looking for it. Online, that advice can come from a number of places: a tweet, a shared video, or a blog post, to name a few. With Google Social Search we've been working to show that content when it's useful …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads — Back in early December of last year, we first reported that Google was toying around with the name “+1″ for an upcoming social product. At the time, we were told it was sort of like Google's version of the “like” or “retweet” button.
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Mashable!, The Social, NetworkEffect, Search Engine Land, Social Media & Technology, Poynter, Examiner, Reuters, TechSpot, Efficient Frontier Insights, SAI and NetworkEffect, Thanks:alexia
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why Google's +1 Can't Compete With Facebook's Like
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Ars Technica and ClickZ
Chris Ziegler:
And away I go — This is my last week at Engadget. — That's a strange thing to write. It's not something I ever really planned for. Then again, I guess you don't ever plan for that when you've got your dream job. — I've told my coworkers in the past that I believe …
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Milo Medin / The Official Google Blog:
Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas — As part of our overall goal to make the web better for users, last year we announced a new project: to provide a community with Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Posts A New OS X Lion Build — Developers You'll Want To Try This One Out — Five days ago, we reported that Apple was gearing up to release a new build of the OS X Lion Developer Preview. Sure enough, that's exactly what they did today as build 11A419 has been seeded to developers.
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Paul Allen / Vanity Fair:
Microsoft's Odd Couple — It's 1975 and two college dropouts are racing to create software for a new line of “hobbyist” computers. The result? A company called “Micro-Soft”—now the fifth-most-valuable corporation on earth. In an adaptation from his memoir, the author tells the story …
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Alma Whitten / The Official Google Blog:
An update on Buzz — User trust really matters to Google. That's why we try to be clear about what data we collect and how we use it—and to give people real control over the information they share with us. For example, Google Dashboard lets you view the data that's stored in your Google Account …
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Charges Deceptive Privacy Practices in Google's Rollout of Its Buzz Social Network
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Antitrust Cry From Microsoft — The wheel of technology history turns remarkably fast. Microsoft, whose domination of the technology industry provoked a landmark federal antitrust case, is crying foul against Google and urging European Union antitrust officials to go after the search giant.
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VentureBeat
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Samsung Investigating Spyware Pre-Installed On Its Computers — If you own a Samsung PC, you may want to search your hard drive for an unassuming program called StarLogger, a piece of commercial spyware capable of recording every keystroke on your machine and sending the data to a third party.
Thanks:nasirudanbaba
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T CEO Makes Case T-Mobile Deal Will Boost IPhone Service — AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson, making his case for a proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA, said the deal would boost network capacity and improve service for devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
AT&T Expects to Let Go of Some Markets, Employees in Merger
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Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage — A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. — The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time …
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paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, GottaBeMobile and MacNN
Brandon Watson / The Windows Blog:
A Year Later-The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter — At the MIX10 conference last year the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. We announced that the tools were free …
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GeekWire, Business Week, The Next Web, Windows Phone Thoughts.com and WinRumors, Thanks:brandonwatson
Business Week:
Do Not Anger the Alpha Android — Google cracks down on the chaos of Android Land; some mobile partners aren't happy — Playtime is over in Android Land. Over the last couple of months Google (GOOG) has reached out to the major carriers and device makers backing its mobile operating system …
Dylan Love / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Finally, Some Photos Of Facebook Investor Yuri Milner's $100 Million Silicon Valley Mansion — Yuri Milner paid $100 million for his new Silicon Valley mansion, significantly more than the previously reported $70 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Microsoft Top Marketer Mich Mathews to Exit — 22-Year Vet at Tech Giant Oversees More Than $1 Billion in Ad Spending — Microsoft's global marketing leader, Mich Mathews, is prepping to leave the company this summer after more than two decades at the tech giant.
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Scaling Instagram: How the Photo Sharing Startup Avoided Catastrophe in Its First Days — The Scaling Startups Series is supported by Brother International. Brother's Inkjet All-in-One printers are loaded with powerful business features, including 11″x17" duplex printing and scan glass.
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Now Allows Personal Profiles To Be Converted Into Business Pages — For the first time, Facebook now allows personal user profiles to be converted into official business Pages, turning all their friends into fans. The “Profile To Business Page Migration” tool will help people …
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The Next Web and All Facebook, Thanks:joshconstine
Bloomberg:
Nokia Rating Cut for First Time by S&P on Smartphone Share — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, had its debt rating cut for the first time by Standard & Poor's, which cited market share losses and “weaker” operating margins at the Finnish company.
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SAI, BGR and FierceWireless
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Interactive ‘Web Intents’ Turn Your Site Into A Lightweight Twitter Client — Twitter has just released Web Intents, a pretty snazzy API tool that allows site publishers to provide users with the functionality of Twitter follows, retweets, replies and favorites without forcing them to leave their own sites.
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ReadWriteWeb and AllTwitter
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon in Big Push to Clinch Music Deals — Amazon.com Inc. is aggressively courting the world's biggest music companies, as it seeks licensing deals that would help improve the online music service it launched Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mike / Understanding Google Maps & Local Search:
Google Officially Ends Support For QR Code in Places — Google is obviously moving strongly towards NFC (near field communications) as their technology of choice for closing the loop of the “last mile” in the local link between consumers and Google. They have built the NFC chip …
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, Search Engine Roundtable and Boris Mann's Blog
Electronista:
Adobe demos Photoshop for iPad with real layer support — Adobe Photoshop for iPad to get layers — Adobe at the Photoshop World conference this morning showed off a version of Photoshop for the iPad that could give the tablet real Photoshop image editing.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
iPad generated nearly 100% of media tablet revenues in 2010 — Today, Gartner revealed that spending on media tablets was $9.6 billion last year. Based on Apple financial releases, iPad generated $9.566 billion in revenue during the year — well, the three quarters the tablet was available.
